PIE CRUST COOKIES (VIDEO):

When I was growing up, my mom used to give my sisters and me her scraps of pie dough after she’d rolled out her pie crust. We used cookie cutters to shape the dough into cookies, sprinkled them with cinnamon-sugar, and baked them into sweet Pie Crust Cookies.

Now that I’m a mom, these easy, peasy cookies have ‘saved’ me many times since – anytime I need a quick batch of cookies. My kids can even make them start-to-finish. (And there’s no flour involved, so the mess is kept to a minimum!)

And yes, I use boughten pie crust. Pillsbury is my favorite brand. Pie Crust Cookies are also lower in sugar and calories:

Deanna makes her Pie Crust Cookies (pictured above) using this Whole Grain Pie Crust and decorates them with this heavenly homemade Vanilla Sugar. (We’ve updated this post since it was first published in 2014.)

How to Make Pie Crust Cookies

Here are the simple steps.

1.Unroll the refrigerated pie crust dough, no need to flour the counter. Cut out cookies using cookie cutters.

2. Just peel away dough and the cookies remain.

3. Place cookies on parchment paper-lined baking sheets. Decorate with colored sugar – this is the only added sugar – so sprinkle as lightly or as liberally as you please. Add dried cranberries, cinnamon imperials, or chocolate chips (as above) or other candies/dried fruits.

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Comments

Deanna, So happy you enjoyed making the pie crust cookies! They are so easy it’s almost embarrassing! 😉 But as a kid who has fond fond memories of my Grandma giving me cinnamon sugar dusted pie crust as a treat, it was too fun not to try! Happy to have found your blog, and hope to visit often!! Off to follow you on all of those fun social media outlets! ~MichaelaMichaela ~ An Affair from the Heart recently posted..Chocolate Pudding Cookies

Love this! Brings back so many happy memories of making pie crust cookies with my mom with the scraps from her apple pie crusts. I decorated them with cinnamon and sugar. It was one of my earliest baking experiences and one that instilled a love of baking that remains today.Sally at Real Mom Nutrition recently posted..Let’s Give Parents A Break

I love love hearing about people’s baking & cooking memories – that’s a wonderful one for sure 🙂 I remember my mom use to let me experiment with basic ingredients to make a cake which usually came out like a kind of tasteless shortcake but the memory is a happy one for sure.

How freaking cool is it that you did this? I am really humbled that you used my recipe, and so glad that it worked so well on these beauties! I will have to try it myself. “I’m not one of those dietitians that says skip the cookies and eat an apple instead.” I want you to be my dietitian!Katie | Healthy Seasonal Recipes recently posted..honey sriracha chicken and cashew stir-fry

Pie crust cookies?!?!?!?! Why have I never thought of doing this, *especially* since these remind me so much of a little treat my mom would make when we were growing up! She would cut pie crusts into strips and sprinkle cinnamon sugar on them, then bake them off. We loved it. These so remind me of that, I’ll have to try it sometime!Julie @ Texan New Yorker recently posted..Cranberry Noels

Now this is the perfect last-minute-I-need-a-cookie recipe! Thanks for sharing. And making own sugar flavors – how fun and festive.Lauren @ Sew You Think You Can Cook recently posted..SRC: Oatmeal Raisin Cookies

Deanna! Always looking for shortcuts in cooking and this one is top on the list. Didn’t realize about using refrigerator pie crust to make cookies. Great idea! My kids are all off on ‘vacation’ from school (for two weeks~ oh lala ) this Friday night, going to make these. Thanks ! Your daughter is beautiful, BTW 🙂 Happy Holidays.Mary @BrightonYourHealth recently posted..Aperitif Dinatoire: An Informal and Classy Dinner Party

I know – I never ever thought to use pie crust for cookies tho it looks like several people said they would do this with pie scraps with their moms when baking pies when they were growing up. So fun – enjoy and Joyeux Noel!!

Wait, are you telling me all I have to do to make cookies for my Hanukkah party Sunday is buy pie dough and use my dreidel cookie cutters to cut it up? Why in the world have I been searching for sugar cookie recipes?! 😉

How cute and easy! Loving the vanilla sugar. I need to utilize the vanilla bean more often. I too, will never say skip the cookies! It’s all about the balance.Alanna recently posted..Yelp Elite Recap + Lorna Jane Giveaway

I have heard that store bought pie crust is one of the worst processed foods for you… so I LOVE to make my own! It’s so easy! I use a food processor to cut in the butter which makes it especially simple. These cookies sound so yummy! I love the flavored sugars!!Jess @ Flying on Jess Fuel recently posted..Andes Mint Chocolate Chunk Cookies

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We’re two dietitians who love food as much as you do! We're also moms and business owners who share our family recipes, healthy kitchen hacks and nutrition adventures while keeping it real in the kitchen with you.